Responding to the Virginia Tech tragedy
News reports are still filtering in about today’s school shooting at Virginia Tech. As the details emerge and as Gospelcom Alliance ministries respond to the shootings and the spiritual questions being raised, we’ll post them here. Here are some early responses to the Virginia Tech tragedy, as well as related materials posted in response to school shootings in the past:
- There’s a discussion of the shootings going on at the Youth Ministry Exchange forums.
- Youth Specialties has some excellent web resources on youth violence.
- Jim Watkins has some good links about dealing with school shootings and coping with death and grief.
- Peggie Bohanon has put up a devotional responding to the Virginia Tech tragedy.
- Bruce Narramore wrote the essay “Why Teenagers Turn to Violence” in response to the Columbine shootings, and it’s still relevant today.
- Violence: Is There a Way Out? was written primarily about Columbine, but has some excellent insights into the nature of school violence and the steps we can take in response to it.
- Columbine Redefined is a short Our Daily Bread devotional that challenges us to think differently about tragedies like Columbine and the Virginia shootings.
- In the aftermath of Columbine, Terry Mattingly wrote about spiritual questions and dimensions of the violence.
- Stuart McAllister wrote the essay The Gravity of Our Disconnection in response to school violence, and discusses the real reason that terrifying violence like this happens.
